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he could not concur in all the objections stated by the Hon. Member for Greenock. What he would recommend his Hon. Friend was, in case his motion should be lost, to introduce scene measure that would have the effect of establishing an uniformity of decision in these different Courts. Mr. PRINGLE said that the present motion was totally uncalled for, and ho felt bound to oppose it. After one or two observations from an Hon. Member whose rolne we could not learn. Lord 3, RUSSELL would vote against the proposition, for the simple reason that it appeared to him that these Unurts leave complotu satisfaction.—( Hear, hear.) They had decided many cases of considerable importance, and there had lam very few appeals from their decisions to the superior Courts, Besides, it did not appear to him that the people of Scotland were dissatisfied, o r cons id ere d t h e p resent system us dilattary, expensive, or uncertain.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. WALLACE, in reply to the Noble Lord, could give his positive assurance that these Courts were detested all Over Scotland_(" Oh, oh !")--and none but the lawyers in that House would stand up in their defence.—( Laughter.) He would make an offer, and that was to repair to any country town in Scotland and ascertain public opinion as to the system. He would certainly divide the House on this motion. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided—For the motion . -- Against it 53 Majority against the motion —34 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN INDIA. Mr. WYNN presented a petition on this subject from se.: veral inhabitants of Madras, both European and native. Sir J. C. HOB 110 USE objected that Mr. Ward's motion on this subject was before the House, and that this petition bore no reference to that motion. After a few words from Mr. WYNN and Sir J. Hoettouse, Mr. WARD, in bringing forward his motion, said the mat ter at issue lay in a small compass, but the interest excited by it in India was immense, as was proved by the number of peti tions from that country—petitions the only prayer of which was for inquiry. He did not see how the House could refuse the prayer without talsifying its own directions, given in 1833, at the Passing of the Indian charter, which were that, if the peopl e of India were wronged, they were to look t) Parlia ment for sympathy and justice. He asserted that, by a single act of the India Government, an inroad was made into the rights of every British-born subject—an inroad totally uncalled for, and which had excited a strong feeling of resentment amongst the European population, without conferring any be nefit on the native population. He had analysed the signa tures to the petition, and found 200 European and 200 Hindoo ;and Parsec merchants .50 Armenians, and 200 Indo-British, with a great number from the Presidency. This did not show party spirit, but showed that all were moved by a common sense of a ccmmon grievance. And what was this grievance? It was stated in the first passage of the petition that " The Act was lately passed by the Le gislative Council as law, the object of which was to repeal the 107th section of the 53d of George 111. ; that the effect of this Act was to render British subjects subject to the juris diction of local Courts, which were presided over by Hin dons, and to take away the right of appeal in cases where the air ount sued for did not exceed 4,000 rupees." He would now state as briefly as possible the system adopted for the ad ministration of justice in India by the Company. First, they had the Provincial Court, the jurisdiction of which was cir cumscribed in point of value. This Court was presided over by a Hindoo or Mahometan. There was an appeal from this Court to the district Court, presided over by an English gun tleman—English in feeling, but having seldom any knowledge of Engli s h l aw , save what he acquired at College. Then there was the Court called the Zillah, the jurisdiction of which ex tended over districts containing populations of a million or a million and a half. The jurisdiction of these Courts extended to all cases whatever. Front the Zillah there was an appeal to the Commissioner of the district, and from him to the Supreme Company's Court, and from that to the King in Council. This was the machinery established for the administration of justice, and it was quite obvious that the whole was studiously arranged to keep its dispensers totally and constantly de pendont on the Company. The Judges were often promoted to political residences or commercial situations, as in the case of Sir E. Colebrook, who, after being a Judge of the Suder Dewany, became after a Member of the Council, and then po litical resident at Delhi. He merely mentioned these facts to show how studiously the dependence on the Company was kept Up. Th e r e were other considerations which affected the Judges in India, namely, that they were all deficient in legal knowledge as far as regarded English law, He found that at a meeting at Calcutta a very experienced merchant, of large property, who had reason to know the practice in all the Courts, stated that bribes were notoriously given to obtain justice from native officers. The English law was only ad ministered between British subjects in the Supreme Court, Until the Act which was passed in 1813, which enacted that jurisdiction should be given to justices of the peace in all civil cases, with an appeal to the Supreme Court. Thus matters remained until the renewal of the charter in 1832, when a Commission was sent out to form a new code of laws for India embracing one equal system of jurisprudence. Mr. Macaulay was at the head of the Commission, and had much difficulty to contend with, and therefore took another course than that of forming a new code of laws, for he deprived the small Courts of their jurisdiction, and restored the supreme Court to its ori g inal power and jurisdiction, of which it had been deprived by the Act of 1813. He hoped the President of the B oa rd o f Controul would state to the House what was tne law that was really to be administered in India to British. .born subjects in all parts of the country. The Hon. Member concluded by moving that a Select Committee bo appointed to inquire into the allegations of the petition, to see whether or not they were well founded, and to report to the House how far the Act of the Legislative Council of India (No. XI.) 1836, affects the rights and privileges of the British and native inhabitants of India, the prerogative of the Crown, and the interests of the United Kingdom. Sir J. C. HOBIIOUSE said the cause of all the present turmoil in respect to the matter brought forward by his Hon. Friend was Mr. Turton„ but his Hon. Friend he was bound to say, had rather exaggerated than extenuated the instructions of his Client when he informed the House of the discontent which prevailed in India on the subject of this Act, and how the rights and privileges of the British inhabitants of that vast country were perilled by it. Alas for the case of his Hon. Friend 1 Ile (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) felt bound to say that there were no grievances felt in respect to it, end that hardly a single com plaint had been made against its operation. Hit Hon. Friend had said that this Act affected the rights of all the British sub jects in India. Now, what was the fact? It affected none except those who were in the Mofussil, or provinces, The in habitants of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay were not touched by its operation. His Hon. Friend had said that the power of appeal to the Supreme Court was the palladium of the liberties of Englishmen in India. Now, what was the fact ? That right ex i sted from 1813 to the pass i ng of th i s Act (1836) in the provinces ; •and yet during that period of twenty three y ears it had been resorted to only twice. Further more he was bound to state that on both occasions the Judges of the Supreme Court, being unable to decide the points, h a d to re f er i t to t h e S ura j e- d ewance- ad-dowlah, or Suprem e Court of the Company. What cause, then, had the British residents in India to complain of the deprivation of this right, so rarely exercised, and which when exercised was asource of th e g rea t es t p ar ti a lity an d inju s ti c e? Hi s H on . Friend . h a d sa i d that this Act was unca ll ed for, but he ( si r C. Hobhouse) was prepared to show, on the authority of the highest law officers in India, that the Legislative Counoil would be guilty of a gross dereliction of duty if they had not passed it. The Right Hon. Baronet then went on to quote the testimonies of Mr. W. Wynn, Mr. Warburton, Mr. C. Puller, and Lord Sandon, given in the debate on the East India Charter, in 1833, in proof of the great advantage it would be to have all the inhabitants of India, British 4; well as native, governed by one set of laws, with no exeluaive Privilege for any particular class. Ho also quoted the au thorities of the Right Hon. Member for Teignmoutli and Sir Edward Ryan, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Cal cutta, to the same effect. His Honourable Friend had abused the Mofussil Courts as ignorant, incompetent, venal and corrupt in their administration of justice, If they were so the more shame for England who had governed the country where they were for more than one hundred years. But he ( Sir John Cam Hobhouse) denied the fact. 14 e , was surprised to hear his Hon. Friend, who had evi dently bestowed much attention on this subject, state that British residents stood in need of a safeguard in India. Did he know how India was governed, or how our Government of that peninsula was maintained ? Had he ever heard or read of a difference between the races of India ? Did he know that we were there in the place of conquerors, with a Government maintained by a vast army, which, he was sorry to say, ex necessitate rei, was described and confessed to be despotic ? Tell him that an Englishman, one of the con querors, and of those who still maintained their conquest, Wanted a safeguard in India 1 Why, in such a province the great difficulty must be to get a native who dared almost to '`")ls an Englishman in the face. The Honourable Gentle. man had laid great stress on the advantage of the protection afford,ld by the King's Courts. He found the following ac count of the manner in which justice was distributed by the Ki ng's Courts in Madras and Bengal :—" The expenses of li tigation in Engl an d are s o heavy that peopl e sit down under b, Y°ogs and su b m it t o l osses r ather than go to la w ; and yet the English are th e r i c h es t people in the world. The people of India is Ire poo r , an d t h e expense of litigation in the Supreme C ourt Y e times as grea t as th e ex pense of litigation in Westinins ter Hall. An undefended case, which might be presented successfully to the Court of King's Bench for about 81. sterl- Thg, cannot be presented in the Supreme Court under 401. sterling, Where our English Barristers receive a gui nea, a arrister there receives two gold mohurs, more than three 1 4. , tlin eas- For making a motion of course an English Barris receives half a guinea, a Barrister here receive a gold a 1) nr• Officers of the Courts are enabled to accumulate in few years out of the substance of ruined suitors fortunes lar ger_ e than the oldest and most distinguished servant can ex- Peet to carry home after thirty or forty years of eminent ser tio'es• I speak of Bengal, where the system is in full opera it n• At Madras the Supreme Court has, I believe, fulfilled suitor within It has done its work ; it has beggared every rich ,or within its jurisdiction ; and is inactive for want of some "u'ly to ruin. This is not all. Great as the evils of the Su preme Court really are, they are e xaggerated by the appre tqn:ions of the natives to a s till more frightful magnitude, i terror with which it is regarded by them is notorious. within the last few months, its in consequence of an attempt gig de b y s °me persons connected with that Court to extet.d jurisdiction over the suburbs of Calcutta, hundreds of re spectablel and wealthy natives petitioned the Government, t . O .gg ” t g l t :g b e r. indicating the greatest dismay, stating that give a el h every English defendant in every civil cause sobring the native plaintiff before the Supeeseo Court gi ve al to ever dish t Enelislaman an immunity against toe almost .11 E juris • Civil pyrosceutions." This character given was of thetion of those Courts by Mr, N ac ,mtla i y, and svaa confirmed in much stronger language by Mr. Ross, Colonel Morrison, and Mr. Shakespeare. His Hon. Friend had said that Mr. Macaulay would have done well not to have legis. lated so quickly in adopting the suggestion of the Law Com mission with respect to the Act under consideration. The Law Commission had nothing to do with the matter. The great merits an4.high genius of Mr. Macaulay all parties ac knowledged in and out of the House ; and even if he should have that Act fixed on him, he did not think it would he much detrimental to his fame. When the debates took 'lace in Parliament oa the India Act the British Legislature decid edly contemplated giving to the Indian Government jurisdic tion over the Supreme as well as over the other Indian Courts. " But," said the Hon. Member, " what a shame to have Provincial Courts in India deciding on questions of English inheritance, marriage, er divorce." Now, here was an error. The Provincial Courts would not have to decide on any such questions. If both parties were British they need not go at all to the Provincial Courts. They might, in the first instance address themselves to the King's Courts, and there ruin themselves to their heart's content.—( A laugh.) It was to the great credit of the Indian Government that for many years past the British public heard little or nothing about it ; and that without exciting any great resistance, or getting up what was called a grievance, they had so successfully con trolled and maintained the sway of a vast empire. Such being the case, he hoped the House would see the propriety of re jecting the motion of the Honourable Member for Sheffield. But supposing a Committee were granted, and called to gether to-morrow, what, he begged to ask, could it do ? what evidence could it collect ?—what documents refer to, which were not at that moment before them? There was, to be sure, Mr. Turton ; but all the evidence he could give was detailed in his pamphlet.—( Hear, hear.) Under these cir cumstances, he hoped his Hon. Friend would let his motion drop, and allow him to substitute for it °le to the following effect :—" That the minutes of Council on which was found ed the Legislative Act (No. 11) of 1836 be printed." Sir C. GREY said that it was not the first time that the proceedings of the King's Court at Calcutta had been made the subject of charges and imputations of the most serious and improper kind—charges entertained in the security of silence against his brother Judges of that Presidency, and never intended for publication. He was glad to hear from the Right Hon. Boronet that ho was not afraid of giving publicity to those secret proceedings, and he hoped he would publish the document containing them ; and under the convic tion that this publicity would do all the good that could be expected at the present moment, he would vote against the motion. But the Right Hon. Baronet had fallen into a great error in his reasoning on the subject of the motives of the pe. titioners. He had said that the British inhabitants of Madras, of Bombay, and Calcutta, took no interest in the matter— that the appeal came only from the country residents—the na tives merely I But did the Right Hon. Baronet suppose that the British residents of India took no interest in the justice dispensed to natives throughout the country ? He was con vinced that the British residents were as much interested in the subject of the petitions as any other class of British subjects. The Right Hon. President of the Board of Indian Commis sioners had made a little mistake as to the equality which the petitioners were said to have protested against. It was a po pular topic to declaim against the exclusive privileges of par ticular classes, but in the present instance, the petitioners sought no peculiar privileges. They had no objection to see the natives raised to their own standard, but they did object to be degraded to the level of a people who were looked upon as unfit for a free Government. The motion of the Hon. Member for Sheffield placed the House in a considerable diffi culty. In 1833 the House of Commons took from the East India Company all its trading advantages, and, further, gave a right to British subjects to hold land for any term of years. When British subjects were thus not only ad mitted, but, as it were, invited to settle in India—in a country every notion of which was connected with grandeur, and wealth, and luxury—it became necessary to establish a more perfect system of laws. —( Hear, hear.) Accordingly, more power was vested in the Governor-General, and a Le gislative Council was established, the appointment of which, though nominally in the Crown, was in reality, with the Governor, but the House at the same time that it made this change reserved to itself the power of altering and revoking every Act of the Legislative Council, and also the right to legislate for all persons and places to the same extent as if such Legislative Council had never been formed. The words were so plain that it was a clear and distinct pledge to all persons going out that the House would retain and exercise its power. The resolution of the Council, which was the object of the petition, was complained of on two grounds— first its want of legality, and next its inexpediency. He en tertained the highest respect for the House of Commons, as the most awful assemblage in the world; but he did not think it the tribunal best calculated to inquire into such a question. It was an investigation which would open too wide a field, and would perhaps do as much harm as good. Mr. HOGG agreed in the animadversion of the Right Hon. Baronet ( Sir J. C. Hobhouse) on the Hon. Member who had brought forward this motion ; but he must express his astonishment at the course which the Hon. Baronet had pursued in the subsequent course of his speech. The Right Hon. Baronet himself had adhered as little to the question as the Hon. Gentleman whom he had censured for departing from it. The petitioners asked if the Hindoo and Alahometan law had been administered with common justice? Where were the reports and opinions that had been alluded to ? If there were any, they ought to he laid upon the table of the House —and as they were not he had a right to suppose that there had been none. He maintained that British subjects had ever since 1723 been amenable to British laws administered in a Mayor's Court until 1773, when a Supreme Court was esta blished, having power over British subjects, and he would re peat that by the letters patent of that law they were amenable to no other tribunal that the King's Court. So it continued till 1813, when the right of British subjects to resort to the in terior of the country was granted, and when it was deemed expedient to render British subjects amenable to the Courts of the country. The enactment of the 53d of George 111., sec. 106, 107, and 108, showed most clearly how the legal pro ceedings between British subjects and the other inhabitants of the country were to be conducted. By it British subjects had an appeal to the Supreme Court as well when plaintiffs as the others had when defendants. This was the law, and all parties were satisfied ssith it.—( Hear, hear.) Why then change it ? There had not been a murmur against it, and during seven years he was in India he only remembered one single appeal. The Honourable Gentleman then called the attention of the House to the petition of February, 1836, which prayed that the law might be lea as it was, at least until some uniform code could he passed.—( Hear, hear.) In March following the Government reply was dated, and all it did was to treat the petioners with utter contempt, containing no answer whatever to what the petitioners prayed for. It would have been well if the Right Honourable Baronet had informed the House what the substantive law was which these petitioners were to have from him.—( Hear, bear.) Mr. Maeanlay's name had been often referred to in the course of this debate; but it ought to be known that his office was that of Legislative Assessor. Mr. Macaulay had no duty under the Bill but that of Legislative Councillor ; but he was after wards appointed a member of the Law Commission. Sir J. C ARNAC did not think that the natives of India should be left in a worse condition than the natives of any other of our colonies. He thought that the first object of the Government ought to be to consult fur the interest of the na tives of India ; and that secondary to that should be the it,te rests of the British residents ; but that certainly after, those interests had the fullest and most important claim to conside ration. These were the principles upon which he thought the Government of India ought to be conducted. Mr. B ROT HE RTON rose, and moved the adjournment of the debate ; but the House having shown a wish to proceed the Hon. Member acquiesced. Mr. W YNN thought it would have been better had the sub ject been discussed before the Privy Council (as we under stood) rather than come forward in the shape of a discussion of this kind. With respect to this particular motion, looking to the state of the House, he would recommend the Honour able Member not to press it, but to accede to the amendment of the Right Honourable the President of the Board of Con trol. He would not conclude without expressing his regret at the course pursued by the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite in producing a minute such as had been read to the House. He (Mr. Wynn) did not think that any Legislative Councillor should have stated in the language of rhetorical declamation that " the Supreme Court had beggared every native of property in Madras, and only ceased now because there was no more left to beggar." Should a charge should not be made without the strongest proof, nor should any Hon. Member have given it publicity. Mr. VERNON S milli would recommend the lion. Member for Sheffield to withdraw his motion, and thus give him (Mr. V. Smith) an opportunity for laying the ontiro minutes on the table. lie congratulated him on the recep tion his motion had received. If the auditory was not numer ous the attention bad been most exemplary, and the question had received the fullest discussion. But he had shown no grounds for a Committee, and, as to his assertion that public opinion in India was against the Act, it was certainly a mis take. Mr. Macaulay had, in his own beautiful language, de scribed the course he had followed. lie had, in fact, " bid defiance to the clamourous censures of the few around him to gain the approbation of the multitudes whose voices he would never hear, and whose faces he would never know."— (Cheers.) He ( Mr. V. Smith) did not see the use of a Committee. If the Hon. Member disapproved of the Act let him bring in a specific motion for its repeal ; but a Committee could effect no useful object. Mr. g LLIOT could bear testimony to the truth of the words attributed to Mr. Macaulay, as Sir R. Palmer, the late Chief Justice of Calcutta, had made precisely a similar ob servation with reference to the ruinous expense of the Supreme Court. Mr. JENKINS thought the conduct of the Government had been fully vindicated. Mr. WA Itp briefly replied, and said that with respect to the grievances of which the Right Hon. Gentleman ( Sir J. C. Hobhouse) complained there was a time when he would be glad to have a good grievance in Westminster to complain of.—( Laughter.) The lion. Gentleman concluded by with drawing his motion. The other notices and orders were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at half-past one. The Earl of Dalhousie is so ill as to leave little hope of recovery. young man, named Garibaldy, was last week drawn for the army at Marseilles, and his father and mother, of whom he was the only son, were overwhelmed with despair. At leuth the father, in a tone of resolution, declared that the young reeri4t chould never depart for the army, and in a few minutes went out and t r ti.ng himself, leaving th e y oung Gari baidy the only son of a widow, by_ he became, of co urse, exernit fr94l, military service.—. French ikever; THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1838. PARLIAMENTARY DI VISION. STIPENDIARY" SHERIFFS (SCOTLAND.) (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. THURSDAY, - 111A - RCH 22. Motion made, and Question put,—" That a Select Committee be appointed, to inquire into the nature and extent of the duties perfo,med by the thirty Stipendiary Sheriffs in Scotland, who are paid out of the Exchequer :—Also, into the nature and extent of the duties performed by fifty-two Stipendiary Substitutes of the aforesaid Sheriffs, who are also paid out of the Exchequer ; and to report how far it will be advisable to continue the system of per forming by Deputy the duties of Sheriffs in Scotland :"—(Mr. Wallace : )—The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 19. Aglionby, H. Ak. A gl iomby, Major Brutherton, J. Butler, lion. P. Carnac, Sir J. K . Duke., Sir James Finch, Francis illon, W. D. Humphery, J. rt , an lan d , Ctptain Salwoy, Connie! Thornley, Thomas Vivo g, N. Vivian, J E. Wakley, Thomas Warburton, Ward, H. G. Wood, Sir Matthew TrIA.ERS. WalLce, Hume, Joseph Arbuthnot, lion. H. Bailey, Joseph Baring, F. T. Barnard, E. G. Bentinck, Lord W. Bruges, W. H. Bustield, W. • Campbell, Sir John Chalmers, Patrick Chisholm, A. Co!quboun, J. C. Eliot, Hon. J. E. Filmer, Sir E Gordon, Hon. W. Gore, 0. J. R. Grey, Sir C. E. Grirr sditch, T. liavre.3, B. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. JORITY-NOES, Hobhouse, T. 13. Hodgson, 11. Hope, G. W. Howard, P. H. Hughes, W. B. Ingham, Robert James, W. Jenkins, IL Jones, Wilson Kinnaird, Hon. A. F. Kirk, P. Lister, E C. Lushington, Dr. Mackenzie, Thomas M•Leod. It. Aimee, Hon. Fox Miles, P. S. Murray, J A. Poulter, J. S. Praed. W. M. Pringle, A. Ru:, E. B. Rice, T. S. Richards, Richard Round, C. G. Russell, Lead John Sandon, Lord Sharp; General Smith, 11. Vernon Steuart, R. Talbot, C, R. M. Tancreal, 11. W, Trench, Sir F. Wynn, C. W. IRELAND. TELLERS. Craig, NV (I. Gordon, Robert 0 , 12011 OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT. DUBLIN, MARCH 9 1 _ STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—Further evidence of the tran quil state of the country is every day afforded by most un willing witnesses, the young Judges—which, in this part of the empire, means the Judges that won't go off the Bench when the world is convinced they should. At the Londonderry Assizes Judge Torrens, in addressing the Grand Jury, said, that he had much pleasure in informing them that the Calendar which had been presented to him was exceedingly light, and the cases of which it was composed very unimportant and of such a nature as would not cause much difficulty upon their part, or demand many observations upon his. There was, in fact, nothing upon the Calendar, but what would occur in the best regulated communities. At the Donegal Assizes Baron Pennefather could find nothing in the Calendar which par ticularly required a remark from him, but the state of that country may be fairly tested by the fact that the Grand Jury were informed that a day and a half would be sufficient to get through their business. These facts and the testimony of such witnesses disprove sufficiently the daily repeated lies of the Tory Preis. A SELF-REFORMED CORPORATION.—For several months past a dispute has been carried on between the Liberal party in Kilkenny and the Mayor (who, strange to say, is a Catholic, and was the Repeal Member for that city, and the same gentle man who retired to make room for Mr. O'Connell), upon the power of the Corporation to reform itself. The Statutes of the Corporation provide that the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur gesses shall possess all the powers which are usually vested in the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Commonalty, or Free men. The Liberal party contended that the Corporation could repeal the restriction, which was but a bye-law of the body, and the fact has proved so. Acting upon the advice of Mr. Pigott, Counsel to the Castle, and one of the soundest lawyers at the Irish bar, the Mayor called a meeting of the Corporate body of the city, which, by a unanimous vote, has restored their ancient powers and privileges to the citizens at large. This is the first reformed Irish Corporation, but others will not be slow in pursuing a similar course to regenerate themselves. NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.-The Evening Packet states that a correspondence has been entered into with the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, to ascertain whether they concur in the sentiments expressed by Dr. Mac Hale against the Board of National Education, and that all the answers yet received manifest in strong terms their confidence in the Board. The Packet adds that answers have been received from nearly all the body. This is what might be expected, from their judgment and good sense. On the other hand, all, or nearly all the Roman Catholic clergy of Dr. Mac Hale's . own arch. diocese have signed an address signifying their par ticipation in his dislike to the present system. A REBELLION RUFFIAN'ii OATII.-11.30 Carlow Asimers opened yesterday, and at a late hour in the evening, the fol lowing case, the particulars of which have just reached town, was disposed of. Michael Kavanagh, a tithe-process server, and commissioner of rebellion, was indicted for stealing twelve kid skins and two lamb skins. The jury found him guilty without hesitation. He was then arraigned for wilful and corrupt perjury, having sworn before Mr. Stanhope John ston, a Commissioner of Affidavits, that he had served Mr. Walter Cummins, of the county of Carlow, with a tithe sub poena on a certain day in the town of Carlow, whereas Mr. Cummins had not been in Carlow for some months, either subsequently or previously to that time. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the great disappointment of a host of farmers of Kildare and Carlow, upon whom this officer of the Court of Exchequer swore he had served similar law processes, and who were prepared not only to contradict his testimony, but to produce the most extraordinary facts bearing upon the case. The whole proceedings founded upon his swearing, will, of c)urse, be quashed, but the country has been suffering front the perjury of miscreants of his class since the writ of , rebellion system has c ommence d , or rat h er b een revived. Kavanagh was sentenced to be transported for sevenyears. The Chu rc h militant has lost a vali an t c h am pi on by this event. DUBLIN. Mr. Sharman Crawford has addressed a lengthy epistle to the Mail on the Poor Law Bill. There will be a Draw ing-room at the Castle on Thursday, the 29th of March inst., at nine o'clock in the evening. There will be a Levee at the Castle, on Wednesday, the `2Bth of March inst., at two o'clock. ROBBERY OF JEWELS FROM THE DUCHESS OF LITNSTER-- MYSTERIOUS AFFAlR.—lnformations were received at Henry_ street Police-office, yesterday, that a casket of jewels, the property of the Duchess of Leinster, valued at 4,0001., were stolen in the following extraordinary manner:—Her Grace left)Carton on Monday, accompanied by some members of the family, for the purpose of attending the ball at the Castle on that evening, and, arriving in her ca'riage at Dominick street, caused the casket, which she brought with her, con taining the diamonds, to be put into a back drawing_ room, as a place of safety, until it should be found neces sary to dress for the ball. A short time afterwards the diamonds were sought for, but lot they were gone. Search was made in every direction to no purpose, and yesterday M r . Cole, accompanied by Sergeant Pollock, of the C division, proceeded to the house for the purpose of investigating the matter, but as the proceeding was strictly private, of course we arc unacquainted with what occurred. This, however, we know, that an individual is suspected, and if that suspi. cion prove to well founded, considerable surprise will be consequence. A few days, however, will unriddle the rnys_ tery. Cot. S. KENNEDY.—The Mail promises, or threatens, rather, to detail in its next publication " facts that will startle the public." The Mail has a reputation for letting off occa sonal crackers, but we are sure our contemporary's facts will startle no one. NATIONAL EDUCATION, ( Ireland.)—( From the Freeman's Journal ) We directed the attention of our readers yes terday morning to the resolutions and a petition emanating from a meeting of the Roman Catholic Clergy of the Deanery of Newport. But that we have the fact esta blished on such incontrovertible testimony, it would pear almost incredible that a district, containing no fewer than fifty-nine parishes, and a population of nearly a quarter of a million of human beings, should be left totally dependent on their own resources for the rudiments of education, whilst the enormous sum of 50,0001. is annually voted for the support of a system miscalled national. Doctor Mac Hale has stated that the present Board of Education does not possess the confi dence of the Catholic people of the Archdiocese of Tuam, It would be strange if it did. A considerable portion of his Clergy have made repeated applications to the Board for as sistance, and they have succeeded in establishing ten schools Marvellous liberality l What may be the proportion of schools as regards the population in other districts we have no means of as certaining at present, but we arc justified in concluding that the Deanery of Westport may be taken as a fair average of the entire. Indeed it is distinctly stated that funds have been re fused to most parishes in the archdiocess, and yet Dr. Mac Hale has been lectured by friends, and abused by foes, for presum ing to find fault with the conduct of the gentlemen who, with an annual income of 50,000/., deny the most Catholic popu lation in Ireland—" notwithstanding repeated applications"- - their fair participation in the advantages to which they are unquestionably entitled. Dr. Mac Hale accuses the board of sectarianism : their anxiety to enlighten P:otestant Ulster, and their apathy as regards Catholic Connaught, will go far— independent of other circumstances —to establish the accuracy of his Grace's opinion. The Protestant clergy of Ulster find little difficulty in procuring the aid of the board. The Catholic clergy of Connaught are obliged to make " repeated applications," and after all they aro una railing. Oh, how imprudent it was of Dr. Mac Hale to expose the inefficacy of the system—how impertinent to suggest a remedy for its imperfections, Dr. Mac Hale, it was said, did not speak the sentiments of the Catholic Clergy—it was even doubted whether his Grace's sentiments were in accordance with those of the Clergy of his own diocese. The latter inuendo has been satisfactorily settled by the resolutions and petition of the Westport meet ing ; and we shall be a good deal surprised if the culpable conduct of the Board with respect to Tuam, and their shame ful neglect of the "repeated applications" of the examplary Clergy of that diocess have not the effect of rousing a feeling of universal indignation in every district of Catholic Ireland. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.-Wedneslay the anniversary of this highly-deserving institution was celebrated at the London Tavern. Lord Sandon presided, and was sup ported by the Sheriffs of London, right and left. The corn pan) was numerous and highly respectable. The Chairman in the course of the evening, gave " Th e Press--the fountain of knowledge, and the bulwark of freedom." His Lordship said it gave him great pleasure to find that the press subservcd the best of all good purposes, for it was the advocat3 both of !sure morals and true religion. The intervals between the toasts were filled up with some excellent singing. The subscriptions in the course of the evening were announced at 1461. 108. • COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yes terday. The Royal dinner party last evening included Prince Ester hazy, the Austrian Ambassador, Prince Nicolas Esterhazy, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, Earl and Countess de Grey, Viscount Palmer ston, Lord and Lady James Stuart, Lord Emlyn, Lord Chas. Wellesley, and the Lord Chamberlain. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Prince George of Cambridge were present at the grand military dinner given last evening by the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House to a party of officers, on their departure for Canada. The Rev. Dr. Muir, of Edinburgh, the Rev. Dr. M'Leod, of Glasgow, the Rev. Dr. Simpson, of Kirkcudbright, the Rev. Mr. Buchanan, of Glasgow, and Mr. Collins had an interview with Viscount Melbourne on Wednesday in Down• ing-street. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council assembled at three o'clock yesterday afternoon in the Council Chamber. There were present the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, Lord -Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Lang dale,. the Lord Chief -Baron of the Exchequer, the Vice- Chancellor, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. The Attor ney-General was heard on a petition from British Guiana. Their Lordships ordered the case to stand over. Mr. C. Gre. ville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. Mr. Brotherton, M. P., and Mr. Potter, had an interview with Lord Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. Mr. Dundas bad an interview with his LordThip on Wednesday. The Belgian and Bavarian Ministers transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoes, had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial Office. A deputation from Scotland had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Home Office. The Address from the females of Manchester and Salford, on behalf of the negro apprentices, was presented on Wednes day at the Levee, by John Burnet, of Camberwell, the Rev. Wm. M. Bunting, of London, Mr. Peter Clare, of Man chester, and Mr. W. Dilworth Crewdson, of Kendal. These gentlemen were presented to the Queen by the Right Hon. Charles Poulett Thomson. LITERATURE. STABLE ECHNOMY. Blackwood, Edinburgh ; Cadell, London. 1838. All owners of horses will be obliged to Mr. Stewart for giving to the public this treatise on the management of horses, in relation to stabling, grooming, feeding, watering, and working. We believe it to be the best arranged book on the subject that has yet been publi-hed. The informs tion conveyed is valuable ; the advice given sound and sa lutary ; and the classification of the several subjects so ac curate and well managed, as to enable the reader to find, without trouble or difficulty, any information he may seek. This is a desideratum for which we may look in vain in the more costly and pretending volumes of White, the great, and not undeservedly respectable, authority in ail such mattcrs. Stewart's little work, we repeat, is an excellent digest, and conveys more knowledge on the several 'subjects of which it treats than is generally to be found after long and laborious search in the verbose and ill-arranged volumes of almost all his predecessors, The woodcuts, too, with which the book abounds, serve a practical purpose of much general utility. QUARTET CONCERTS. The third concert of the above series, under Messrs. Bla grove and Lucas, at the Hanover-square Rooms last night, attracted an extremely fashionable assemblage of company. The room, however, was anything but crowded. The selec tion consisted of Mozart's Quartet in E flat major (No. 4, of op. 80) ; the Quartet in 13 flat major (op. 130), of Beeth oven ; the Military Septet in C major (op. 114), of Hummel ; and Haydn's Quartet in G major (No. 1 of op. 80); besides several vocal pieces. The quartets were played with the same delicacy and precision, the same keeping in all the four instruments, that we have been accustomed to hear at these concerts. If there was any fault to find with them, it was that in parts they might, in our estimation, have been im proved by the infusion of a little more energy and vigour into the execution of the several parts. The playing was perfect, but from the apparent want of power in the forte parts, arising from the size of the room, and the seeming modesty, or at least the actual moderation - of the performers, the lights and shades were not defined with sufficient distinctness to do away with that sameness, incident to a succession of compositions limited to four instruments. The Septet of Hummel conse quently stood out in bold relief, and was unusually effective. The pianoforte part was superbly played by Mrs. Anderson, and yet not in such a mode as to convey an idea that she aimed at anything like parade, or a wish to display her own very superior abilities. It was played in the way it ought to be, as the leading instrument of the Septet, but not as a pianoforte concerto or solo. The brilliancy of Mrs. An derson's fingering, striking as was its effect, appeared to be but secondary to the full, round, and powerful tone produced by her in the combined harmonics and the beautifully expres sive style of her p er f ormance . Th e ot h er parts were f or flute, clarionet, trumpet, violin, violoncello, and double bass, by Messrs. Card, Willman, Harper, Blagrove, Lucas, and Howell. These instruments were all played with great de licacy; the three wind instruments were particularly effective. The vocal pieces were, in the first part, a song, by Mr. Stret ton, " The Adieu" of Keller; very fairly sung, but the voice of this gentleman is not of an agreeable quality of tone ; and Cherubini's " Ave Maria," charmingly sung by Miss Woodyat, and splendidly accompanied by Willman on the clarionet. In the second part Mr. Bennet sang Spohr's canzonet " Felicity," and the serenata of Rossini " Mira la Bianca Luna." The first was very well sung by Mr. Ben nett. but is, like most of Sphor'svocal music, h eavy , an d not particularly inte re sting. Rossini's serenata was much ad mired. We should have stated. that the vocal music was ac companied cn the pianoforte by Mr. Cipriani Potter. The next Concert takes place on Thursday, April 5, which tenor. nates the series. A TTEMTTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning, be ween six and seven o'clock, a female about twenty years of age, very decently dressed, was observed walking to and fro near to the centre of Waterloo Bridge. She was sobbing violently. A gentleman named Dowling was induced to watch her. After some time she suddenly clambered upon to the balustrades of the bridge, and was about to throw herself off when Mr. Dowling caught hold of her dress to draw her back wards. She refused to state who she was, and was given in charge to the police. Mr. Thomas Ridgway, jun., of Harwich, near Bolton, was killed last week by a fall off his horse while hunting, near Preston, with Mr. Farrington's. hounds. He was in his 23d year, and very fond of field sports. He lingered after his fall several hours in extreme agony. On Wednesday a wardmote was held in Cutlers' Hall, Cloak.lane, in the ward of Vintry, for the election of an Alderman of that Ward, in the room of Henry Win chester, Esq., deceased. Mr. W. Magnay, stationer, was unanimously elected. No other candidate was proposed. Notwithstanding the exertions made by the police no clue has yet been gained with regard to the perpetrators of the late mysterious and extensive plunder of diamonds, sic. at the residence of Lord Viscount Charlemont, the value of which is supposed to exceed considerably the su m at fi rst stated, namely, 2,000 1 . The Temps gives the following statement as t o th e axes of ships of the line in the French navy afloat on th e I st of January hatrye:Tlaj The oldest, the O cean , h as b een afloat 47 3a estueux, 35 ; the Commerce, 3 l ; the Maren go and the Nestor, 27 ; the Trident and the Diademe, 26 ; the Ville de Marseilles and the Montebello, 25 ; the Scipion, 24 ; the Jena, 23 ; the Alger, 22 ; the Neptune a n d the St. Petri, 19 ; the Sou v erain , 18 ; the Alge s ira s , 14 ; the C e nn . e, the Hercule, th e youngest, will have been launched a two years in July next. Th ere are twenty frigates which are more, and eleven whi c h are l ess, than twenty years r ou x r , o 6 In3d; the Suffren, 8 ; t h e J up i ter and the Gene u old. Between 1810 and 1838 there were only twenty ships launched, although from 1820 to 1837 f orty h ave disappeared. Lord Sandon , Mr. G. W. Wood, M.P., M r. Scotland, :NI. 1 3 ., the Attorney-General, the L or d Ad vocate of and a Deputation, had intervie ws w i t h t h e President of of Trade (yesterday) on t h e subject of refining tti l e Wallace, pd'wird sugar. mR. Q uiN NEW R S O.IANCE.—Much expecta tion is excited i n the readin g world by the announ cement o f Mr. Quip's ori ental fiction enti tled " Nourinahal," The s ce n e s arc laid, as we underst and , among the m os t su bli me as well as beautiful lo calities of the Eastern world ; and th e ta l e is of such a natu re as to corres p ond in a remarkabl e mapper with the impress ions and association s excited by those locali ties. The wilds of Tartar y —the wo nders of the Himal a y a— Hindoostan i n all its imperial splendour—the Talli es of Callao_ mere in all their unequalled loveliness _these are the seoy es through which Mr. Quin follows and illustrates the wild fic tions and wondrous traditions to which tha t ' have given rise. trVlEW.—Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, it review of the Guards destined for Canada, took place in Ilyde Park, in the presence of their Commander, Major- General Sir J. aiacdonnell, and a larg o a ssem b lage of rank and fashion. Their Royal Highnesses th e D u k e an d Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess August a , an d Prince George, were present , as well as the Duke of Wellington, Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Marquis of Downshire, most of the Officers of the Household troops, and a large number of the Nobility. The Guards consisted of two brigades of eight hundred each, divided into companies of one hundred each. Th e y went through a variety of military evolutions with the nicest precision and most soldierlike order. These brigades consist of picked men, and nothing could be finer than their appearance. The uninviting state of the weather spa believed to be the cause of her Majesty's absenco, The clouds threat ened rain all the mornin • g,but fortunately held off until the re view was over. THE SOLWAY.----What is called the vernal equinox has reached us earlier f late than the o years and every one knows that during the gales that precede and fallow that period the Solway Frith is far from affording im munity to the shipping interest, unbuoyed and unlighted as it still is to an extent unknown on any other commercial coast. In Cumberland the nautical arrangements have long been that even superior ; but great im provement, was made apparent by the survey executed last year by Lieutenant Robinson, of the Royal Navy, and his as sistant, Mr. Bedford; and when all the buoys ordered are planted, the light-ship placed, and other steps taken, the navigation along the whole line of coast, to St. Bees and be yond, will be rendered as safe during the ni,,o•ht as during the day. The o b servations taken during the last two seasons have been reduced pencil; objects, to paper by pen' and however minute, in the sha e of rock or sand, are e ; to every extensive carefully delineate to sand-bar,such as Robin Rigg, limits are assigned, with the depth of water a t e b b or full tide; not even the Piper's Cove, Colvend, " the Needle's e'e," or " Lot's Wife," escape notation; and time charts, in the opinion of all, when pub lished, will speak for themselves. None, save the uninls tiated, can form the slightest ofthe labour idea amount 0 4 which a scientific marine survey implies the sextant and sounding line are in constant requisition ; the tide-table must be studied, and its variations noted at every creek in boating it along • the coast it is impossible tO, eaNsloy the theodolite • but still th e w h o l e bearn t ici embraced—chan nels, headlands, and b . every ca ea intervening object—must be worked trig enosa e 11'and h • traea y ; having seen the charts allu ded to, we can safelythat they b •• say sus, expensive, and beautiful. That they will he the A f 0111 dmiralty, or by aunle oiler a" ••• , 'would fain hope • and ibe done, se . r i , y eel ,he moat invaluable will be ren dered to e vQ ., i 5 mapped, 4, 4 1 , c , 1 w m_ twiner visiting the Solway. Every county h every coast still more erkrec ,l r , 01Y , - ticulariy in our day, not lakes, and • when friths, essuar es, rivers are bridged by steam, and communication by dexceeding in land frequency cern= • t' b t C • inca wrt er 'as our(ec‘ HULL ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The following address from Colonel Thompson :is placarded in the streets of our town this morning. It scarcely necessary to say that he has not the slightest chance to succeed, and by pursuing a course of conduct, so infatuated, will lead to the inevitable result of a Tory being returned for Ilull, which, under other circumstances, would be certain of sending two Reformers.—l am, Sir, your obedient Servant, Hull, 22d March, 1838. DELTA. P. S.—Mr. Hutt and Mr. Wood have the first claim, they being the parties petitioning. (Copy of Address. )' TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF KINGSTON -UPON-HULL. GENTLEMEN,—A decision of the Committee this day, has brought a new Election for Hull within the range of possibility. I have the honour to propose myself as a Candidate for your suffrages, in the event of a new Election finally taking place.- 1 have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obcdt. Servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. 30, Hanover-terrace, Regent-park, 20th March, 1838. SUDBURY ELECTION-THURSDAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The writ for a member to serve in the present Parlia ment for this borough, occasioned by the decease of our late Member, General Sir Edward Barnes, has this day been prc claimed. The nomination is fixed for Monday morning, the 26th instant. Up to the present time no candidates have solicited except our es-member, Sir John Walsh, who was returned second on the poll at the election of December 10 and 11, 1832, when the numbers were—For the Right Hon. M. A. Taylor 263, 127 of which were plumpers ; Sir John Walsh 253 ; D. C. Wrangham, Esq. 234; John Bagshaw, Esq. 46. On that occasion such had been the chagrin of Sir J. Walsh, on not being allowed to ride first in the chairing, that he im mediately left the town, accompanied by Mr. Wrangham, without being chaired, or thanking his supporters ; since which he has made two unsuccessful attempts to get into Par liament, one for Radnorshire and the other for the borough of Poole : the latter he petitioned against, but has abandoned it. As such he is by no means popular in the borough. His per tinacious opposition to the Reform Bill, and his support of every clause of the Poor-law Bill, has lost him a considerable number of respectable supporters. He writes tales of fiction well, and his chapters of contemporary history, like Murphy's Almanack, has proved a bugbear, and erroneous. Whether this gentleman will be permitted to walk into the House of Commons without opposition, remains to be proved ; and as bribery is reduced in this borough full 75 per cent., with no coercion beyond some half dozen voters from either Peer, Lord, Squire or Parson, an eligible opportunity offers to any aspirant to so honourablo and distinguished a station.—Your's respect fully, A CONSTANT READER. EIGHT O'CLOCK, r. have just heard that the Freemen are meeting, and signing a requisition to John Bagshaw, Esq. or to Mr. Ellice. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,--An advertisement having appeared in the papers of this day und er th e t i t l e " London, Paris, and Hamburgh Asphalte Company," stating that Messrs. Latlitte, Blount, and Co., are the bankers of that Company in Paris, I shall be obliged to you if you will do me the favour to state that their names were inserted without their knowledge, and that they have no connection whatever tlith that Company. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, EDWARD BLOUNT. Henrietta -street, Covent Garden, March 2.2, 1838. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT TER SALT.' S--..YESTERDAy. THE DEREY. Neither of the three favourites was backed, nor, in fact, did there appear to be any inclination to keep them in position ; the subjoined odds will show that two out of the three underwent a slight decline. The Early Bird suffered in the early part of the day, from the defeat of Mr. Peel's Gadfly at Warwick, but partially recovered towards the close. len was backed in two or three quarters without ad vancing, while a few bets made on Alemdar and Young Rowton sprung each two or three points—the friends of the latter seemed very " fond," spite of the " walking" exercise. Bullion rose in favour, nor was D'Egville so low in the market as on Monday. The only outsiders in request were Conservator and Drum-major. Lord Warwick's colt, a winner at Warwick on Wednesday, beating Gad fly and several others, does not take, The Oaks betting was flat and unimportant. Latest prices 6 to I agst Lord Jersey's two—offered 10 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt—offered 11 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Mornus—take 12 to 1 15 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—taken 10 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. Bland's Young Rowton—taken 18 to 1 agst Ld Exeter's Alemdar—take 20 to 1 20 to 1 agst Mr. H. Coombes's Cobhatu—offered 25 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Bullion—taken • 25 to 1 agst Ld G. Bentinck's D'Egvillo_taken & after offered 30 to 1 agst Lord Westutiuster's Richard Roc —take 33 to 1 30 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr, Richardson's Mone Adam—offered 30 to 1 :Apt Mr, Worrall's Dormouse__taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Quo Minus—offered 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Bretby—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Cliesterfield's Tranby's dam colt—offered 50 to 1 agst Mr, A. Smith's Cracker—offered 1000 to 10 apt Lord Wilton's Davie Gellatley—offered 1000 to 10 apt Lord Chesterfield's c. out of Baby's dam—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Lambden's Dromedary—taken 1000 to 15 asst Mr. Forth's Conservator—taken 4000 to 60 agst Mr. W. Edwards's Drum-major —taken 1000 to 15 agst Lord Warwick's Lady Neville colt—taken and after wards offered 500 even betting agst lon and Young Rowton—taken 500 to 400 on Young Rovrton agst Bullion—taken 500 to 250 on :Hone Adam agst Conservator—taken 900 to WO agst Alemdar and Young Rowton—taken 6 to 5 on Cobham ; Alemdar, and Bullion agst Cobweb—taken THE OAKS. 8 to 1 arzst Loed Suffield's Callisto-8i to 1 taken 0 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Glenara—taken 10 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Unique—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's Ninny—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's ilowton's dam filly—taken WARWICK SPRING NESDAi. Match, 100, p.p. One mile.—Mr. J. Hawkes's bl. c. Sarcopha gus, 2 yrs, Bst. 71b., agst Mr. B. Collett's b. f. Nanfau, 2 yrs, Bst. 41b. Off by consent. Match, e 5 sons. each. Two miles.—Mr. B. Collett's ch. g. The Lively Lad, aged, 12st. (Darling), beat Mr. J. Hawkes's b. m. Jolly, aged, a feather, easily. The Trial Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 50 added (30 by the Town of Warwick, and 20 by the Stand Proprietors), for two and three years old. Mile Course. 12 Subs. Lord Warwick's b. c. by Brutandorf, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b Jones 1 Mr. E. Peel's ch. c. Gadfly, 2 yrs, 7st Mr. Fowler's ch. e, Gilbert Gurney, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b •.. 3 Mr. Tomes b. f. Eliza, by Bedlamite, 2 yrs. 6st. 121 b 4 The following also started, but wore not placed :—Mr. Bristow's b. o. Hurricane, 2 yrt, Gst, 12th; Mr. Laey's ch. c. Vain, 2 yrs, 7st; Mr. Lucas's gr, o, Gimcrack, 2 yrs, ist ; Mr. T. Walte rs ' s b . c. Willi am May, yrs, 7st; an d Mr. Ilervey's b. f. Maid of H a mpton, 3 yrs, Bst. 121 b. Won easily by a length. The Pillerton Stakes of 25 sons. each, h. ft. Two mile Course. 2 Subs. Captain Lamb's br. c. Jack, 5 yrs, list. 71b The Debdale Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added. Two mile Course. 5 subs. Mr. Little's gr. g. Apostate, aged, 12st Capt. Cunynghame I Mr. H. Clarke's gr. m, Sister to The Flyer, aged, 12st ...... 2 Won in a canter. The lisrdlo Race Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added from the Ste war d s ' Fund, Six leaps. Two mil e Course. 6 Subs. Mr, Cooper's bl. m. Emma, 5 yrs, list. 71b Mr. Roots 1 Mr. Collett's ch. (r. The Lively Lad, aged, llst. 71b 2 Mr. Surdifield's br, g. Polyanthus, aged, Ilst. 71b 3 The following also started, but were not placed :—Capt. Lamb's br. f. Morel, 4 yrs, llst. 71b; Mr. Bawcut s ch. g. Lottery, 6 yrs. A good race. The Farmers' Plate of 50 sovs., with 10 to . the second. Heats, Two mile Course. J. Cross's b. g. Welcomb, 3 yrs, 10st. 21b...Owner I 3 1 F. Robbins's b. f. Wildgoose, 3 yrs Lucas's b. f. Maria, 3 yrs, lOst. 21b IL Robbins's b. g. Single-peeper, 3yrs, lOst.2lb 0 1 0 J. Hyde's b. g. Bay Mickleton, 5 yrs, Ilst. 91b 6 2 0 Knight's b. c. Young 'Vivian, 3 yrs, lOst. 21b 2 0 0 . Hurlston's b• f, Maiden, 3 yrs, lOst. 21b 0 0 dr r. Page's h, Tarrant, 3 yrs, lOst. 21b ...... ,„,, • 0 odr ir‘ ch. in. Maid of All Work ; 5 yrs, list. 91b 0 0 dr Each heat \' xll A Forced Handicap Stge , s, o? 10 sovs. each. Once round and a distance. 6 Subs. Mr, T. \Valiers's ch. c. Sir F e li x , 5 yrs 9§i. 81b.., M ar l ow I , t,„,pt. Lamb's br. c. Jack, 5 yrs, st. . lOIb ... ........... Mr. Cowper's bl m. Emit% 5 yrs, 9st ........... The followina also, started, so, started, b u t were no,t plad:—Mr. Little' s gr. veu Akv cle ,s4tc., aged, 7st. 41b, Lacey's V a i n , 2 y rs , B s t • Woy xerll.. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. --- The day at present fixed for hearing, appeals against the new Poor-rate assessments, one of the most extensive dist, icts in Dorsetshi, , e, is Good Friday ! OLD AGE.—The Wirksworth and Derby carrier, brought the other day in his, vavi 0,04 imseilgers to Derby, to give evidence akt, the Ici,te assizes, whose united ages amountc4 to t44kyczrs, being an average of 781- years each.-- , eTbu. .Pvearteri DREADFUL GALE AT LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL, Marten 21.—Yesterday this town wt,s visited by a gale of extraordinary violence. The morning set in with heave rain, and towards the forenoon the gale gradually rose from,the south-west, inerelsing in intensity till high water, half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, when it was at its height, and raging with fearful violence. After this it slightly abated * and the w i n d c h opped round to the westward. Considerable damage was done in the town by the blowing down of eitimne . ,3 pots, and the tearing of slates from the roofs of the ho ml, n, is feared that the tidings from sea will be tnOst dittAltrotis; When the g a l e was at its height the Avon, from Natehew, cot, ton laden, r an on s h ore nearly opposite Formby. A tqattt e r was sent out t o her ttssiftance, hut by no effort en4l.a 1 ) 4 brought within two miles of the stranded veslui, Being holly driven oil by the gale. The tq1".7,:e.,y life-boat was got out, but all exertions to put 911 ' tern the shore proved ineffee, blown out of the water. Under tual. The beat was 1t.:7-; 11.) , l'. :Cuinstances the poor mariners were obliged to bo 'eft t o h n es b e oard, to abide the chances of a tempestuous night.. off the early, on the tide going cut, the crew wP%e got off the vessel, which began to break up with the r-turning tide, the sea making a complete breach over her: Soon after the from Bombay, was above vessel had run on shore the Orient stranded in Bootle Bay, two miles );telow Liverpool, and a schooner, name unknown, suppos - ed to be a coaster, was soon after run on shore near her. The same steamer which had been engaged in encleavollring to render assistance to the Avon strove to assist these vessels also, but without success. About six o'clock, as her M ijesty's twill-packet the Lucifer sas going out of the River from Liverpool, for Dublin, she came in contact with a large American vessel, the IVestehester, from Savannah,. inward-bound ; and such was the force of the concussion that the steamer's chirru i cy went overboard, and severely injured a passenger and one of the crew. She was so far disabled as to be obliged to relinquish her course and make for Bootle Hay s where she anchored, and threw up blue lights for assist'nce. A steam-tug went down to her, and assisted her in making fast to ride out the night. This morning she waP, towed into Li verpool quite disabled, and put into dock repair. During to-day the bull of a small craft was wr_..shed on shore on the main of Voel Nant, name unknowr., The large flat-bottomed boat lately moored off the pier I :,ead, and used as a l an di ng bridge at low water , after )2,ei r ,- g frequently ne ar ly capsised bythe gale, filled, and sunk fact—and on e which yesterday evening. A most si n g u l ar deserves to be recorded in the annals of maritime advent,,re_is the following :---The John Porter, which sailed 4 :or Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Dem erara , i s now in this port, wi t h t hi s d amage, having been absolutely driven the wkole breadth of the Atlantic out of her course. Such a eirs:umstance may fairly be said to be unprecedented. It is fortunate that yesterday the tide happened to range low, about eleven feet. Had the same gale occurred with a2l feet tide, the effects upon the river would have been tremendously mag nified. The water would have been blown at least four or five feet higher than the calculated level, and vessels, as has be fore been the case, might have been mounted completely over the pier. It is feared that very disastrous accounts will yet be received. The last telegraph from Holyhead states the wind, a s!ron,g• breeze, to have veered round to the N. E. The gale abated at Liverpool down to a stiff breeze this morning, and to-night it is quite calm. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals, March 22.-The Earl Powis, SpittP2a, from the Mauritius, in the Downs--sailed Dec. 30 ; "aria Catharina, Sehippers, from Batavia, off Dover-'sailed, from St. Helena January 26. Arrivals at Calcutta. -The Marinus, Patterson, Dcc. 24, from Elobart Town, Singapore, and Penang; Flora, Dona• boy, Dee. 26, from Moulmein ; Rob Roy, M'Kinnon, Dec. 29, for China and Singapore; Antonia Pereira, Young, Dee.. 30, from China, Dec. 9, and Singapore, Dec. 15 ; Belhaven, Crawford, Dec. 31, from Glasgow ; Resolution, Dixon, Jan. 2, from Madras; Corsair, Porter, Jan. 3, from Singapore; Susannah, Ridley, Jan. 4, from Sydney and Carnicobar Island; Monarch, M'Neilage, Jan. 5, f rom Gl asgow; Courier, Dixon, J an . 5, f rom the Cape of Good Hope; Elizabeth, Manook, Jan. 5, from Rangoon; Susan, Young, Ja n . 6, f rom Bombay, C a li cut , an d Alleppee ; Dorothy Sales, Moore, Jan. 9, from Liverpool, the Cape, and the 'Mauritius. Departures from Saugur (Bengal).-Tlie Herculean, Ilux table, Dec. 20, for Liverpool ; Guillvdon, Dec. 20, f or N ew South Wales ; Gabriella, Lec. 21, for Bourbon ; United States, Dec. 22, for Bost:in ; Shaw, Shaw, Dec. 24, fur Jud dah ; Fanny, Dec. 2 1 ., for Ceylon ; Flora, M'Donald, Dec. 25, for Rangoon; .anet, Dec. 26, for Bombay and Muscat; Blorenge, Dec,. 27, for Liverpool; her Majesty's brig Zebra, M‘Laren, J.an. 1, for Penang; the George and Mary, Jan. 2, for Mauritius ; the Herefordshire, Jan. 4, for Mauritius ; Jessy, Jan, 4, for Penang; Hydroos, Jan. 7, for Juddah ; Jaunet, iihalmers, Jan. 7, for Pondicherry ; Allison, Jan. 7, for M a . Bras and Ceylon ; British Monarch, Jan. 7, for Moulmein, Pondicherry, and the Mauritius ; Calcutta, Jan. 7, for Moul mein ; Sir Wiliiam Wallace, Jan. 7, for Madras ; Ernaad, Jan. 7, for th e R e d S ea ; Otterspool, Jan. 8, for Liverpo o l ; Madagascar, Jan. 8, for London. Vessels proceeding Down the Hooghley, Dec. 1. The Isabella, for Madras ; Thames, Wolfe, for London; Ashmonv, for Judda ; Ruby, for China; Gloire, for Bourbon ; Fattle, Barry, for Juddah ; London, Wimblef for London ; Whitley, Stainton, for Dmerara; Samuel Storrocks, for Singapore ; Red Rover, for China; Antelope, for Judda ; Duke of Buck ingham, for London ; John Leeplum, for Moulmein and Ran goon; Mermaid, for the Mauritius. Calcutta, Jan. 1 1.-. Vessels expected to sail.---The Wind sor, fur London ; Lord Hungerford, for London ; Belle Poule, for 801-deaux ; Antonio Pereira, for China and Singa pore ; Rob Roy, for China ; Carnatic for the Mauritius ; Krishnsh, for Krracand ; Khyouk Phoo Hoogley, for Boor.. bon ; Shawallum, for Bombay. Ships Loading, -The Moira, Owen, and Juliana, D 1 iver, for London ; the Allerton, Chat tetton, and Monarch, AltVeilage, for Liverpool ; the Hes perus, Baxter, for Demerara ; the Strathisla, Griffin, and Pero, Gray, fur Australia ; th e M ar i nus, Patterson, for Pe nang and Singapore; the i3clhaNen, Crawford, for the Mau ritius ; Elizabeth, for Ce j lon ; Charles Grant, Pitcairn, for Bombay. Manilla, Nov. 27.-Thc Ann, Griffiths, is to sail early in December, for London, Arrivals at Bombay.-The Glenelg, Langley, Jan. 14, from Singapore ; the May, Glass, Jan. 18, front Llanelly ; the Dowlett Savoy, Hasain, Jan. 19, from Penang; the Reli ance, Robertson, Jan. 20, from Liverpool ; the Castle Hunt ley, Johnston, from London ; her Majesty's ship Berenice, Jan. 21, from Suez, with the London mails of Nov. 23. Departures from Bombay. -The Boyne, Richardson, for London; the Gilmore, Lindsay, Jan. 14, for London ; the Ganges, Airdlie, Jan. 16, for the Mauritius ; the Princess Charlotte, Sproule, Jan. 17, for Liverpool ; the Sir W. Compton, Bolton, Jan. 17, for the Persian Gulf; the John Knox, Swain, Jan. 20, for Liverpool. Ships Loading-Tho Eliza, Jan. 26, for the Clyde ; the Bombay Packet, Feb. 1, for Liverpool ; the Carnatic, Feb. 1, for the Cape and Lon don ; Berkshire, Feb. 6, for London ; the Buckinghamshire, Hopkins, for London. Arrival at Madras.-The Lady Flora, Ford, Dec. 27, from London. Ships Spoken.-The Malcolm, Eyles, from London to Madras and Calcutta, Feb. 10, in lat. 12. 5 S., long. 28. 43. W., per the Clara, arrived at Liverpool. Passengers per the Protector, Ballanshaw, from the Mauri tins (expected)-Lieutenant and Mrs. Younghusband and child, Mr. Webb, and Mr. Dayers. ------- - At a village in the Commune of La Ferte-Fres ne l, in France, a scene has lately been witnessed which bats filled all minds with consternation. A farmer, seated at '4:he table of a o ins-house with several other persons, agreed to sell a fat pig to a neighbouring proprietor, and to deliver the animal upon the following Wednesday. The bargain was, sealed by a few glasses of cider, according to ancient usage, after which the seller and buyer rose from the table. Upize:, leaving the cabaret the pur chaser recollected that he Inv; a pressing engagement for the Wednesday, and stated to 'tile seller that it would be an accom modation to him to r , ,ceive the amount one day before that already fixed. To this no objection was made, and in fact the pig was delivered to the buyer upon the Tuesday evening. Having thus disposed of the animal, the seller was returning home, when, near his own door, he was accosted by a man leading a bear, who begged a night's lodging for himself and his charge. The farmer, under other circumstances, would not have felt an inclination to entertain such guests, but as night was falling, and the wind chilling and frosty, and recollecting, too, that the pig -stye was vacant, his good feeling prevailed, and he determined to give shelter for the night to the bear lea ler and Ilia savage companion. When they arrived at the 'farm the bear was installed in the pig's place, and his master having fed and made him up for the night, retired to the farmer's cottage, where he was invited to sit near the fire, ad mitted to the table, and provided with abed. The night passed on, but it would appear that two of the persons who had been drinking at the same table with the farmers when the terms of the bargain were agreed upon, and who were under the imprei. stun that the pig was to be sent on the Wednesday, had det6e mined to steal the animal before it was so removed, Ac cordingly they repaired to the farm at night, and ono of them crept into the stye, whilst the other remained on Ow: outside of the hedge. What pas ;ed between the ill-fated intruder and the ferocious animal was known only by the pools of blood, broken bones, and fragments of flesh which were found strewed upon the floor the following morning. The other robber, feeling uneasy at not receiving the agreed signal from his accomplice, ventured to approach the house, and finding all still, crept nearer to the den. Ile called to his comrade, but all was silent. He then determined to penetrate into the stye, but had advanced but half his body when the ferocious beast, whose ;liirst for blood had become excited, threw himself upon him . With great fury. The unfortunate man was overwhelmed, but after a short time succeeded by an extraordinary effort in sav ing himself from the rage of his enemy. He was so weakened, however, by the loss of blood, from his wounds, that he was unable to fly, and he fell in the garden, where was found by the people of the farm. He died next day in the greatest tor t wo. —French Paper. ISLE OF WIGHT, MARCH 18.—A melancholy accident occurred at this place on Friday night last, by whi c h "%lit& Traquellair, the niece of the late Lord Holmes, was burnt in so shocking a manner that she expired at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, after twelve hours' extreme suffer ing. An inquest was held on the body, when it appeared that the unfortunate lady had returned front spending the evening at the Rev. Mr, Ilurrard'a, the Rector of Yarmouth, and was left by her attendants undressing by the fire, when they went t o bed, at eleven o'clock. Shortly afterwards an alarm was given, and Miss Traquehair was found in the garden with her clother burnt off her back. She was a most amiable woman, 4nd was universally respected by all who had the pleasure of her acciu; intance,